1st Edition
Embracing Complexity A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy
Acknowledgement
Series Preface
Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – From Implication to Application
Chapter Three – From Theory to Calculation
Chapter Four – From Discovery to Evidence
Chapter Five – From Clinician to Technician
Chapter Six – What the Therapist Say
Chapter Seven – Open to Possibilities
Chapter Eight – Conclusion
Index
Biography
Dr Patricia Talens is an existential analytic psychotherapist, a supervisor and researcher working both privately and within the charity sector in London and Brighton. Her PhD specialised in research regarding the way therapists interact with techniques in their practice and how technique and method in psychotherapy can shape therapists.
'Can at the heart of psychotherapy there still be experiences of purposeful encounters in our era when manualised approaches are increasingly being given primacy? This remarkable book sets out to show the detrimental effects for psychotherapy in general of the systemisation of calculable techniques when coupled with changes in cultural practice, political priorities and economic pressures. Patricia Talens, a master theoretician and importantly practitioner in the field, cogently argues that there is a resulting diminution of psychotherapies that require intuition and situational attunement as ethical endeavours; and, this has radically reduced, and continues to reduce, diversity in psychotherapeutic practices and research.'
Prof Del Loewenthal, Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapy & Counselling, University of Roehampton; Chair, Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling ( SAFPAC)
